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January 25, 2013

Papertrey Ink Blog Hop - January & MIM #101

Can you believe it is the 25th of January? Wow time flies.

Time for the January 2013 Papertrey Ink Blog Hop.

This month the theme is black backgrounds.

What I learned very quickly is that black is not very forgiving and especially with embossing powders. Even though I use my embossing buddy, the powder still wanted to stick. I decided to go with a one layer all black card and then double emboss it as Heather Nichols showed us in this week's Make it Monday. I love the look of the double embossing and the white really popped.

Edit: I did end up with two tiny specs melted in the wrong place, I tap of my ultra fine black Sharpie hid the evidence.

I love your card Tracey! Such bright fun colors. Hate it when that happens even after using the embossing buddy. Happens to me quite often. I guess we just have to say it adds that much more to our cards, right?!

Hi Tracey! Your double embossing looks awesome. I have tried this and failed - it did NOT look as great as this. I love the Zing powder colors you chose, and am hoping to grab some of those at some point because I have heard they're pretty great.

Wow, nice job with the double embossing, Tracey, I didn't even attempt it! I don't see any strays on this card. I've found if you do get stray powders on the black background you can cover them up pretty well with a dot of a felt-tip pen. Sometimes you get lucky and the tip actually pushes the embossed speck away. If not, at least it disappears color-wise.

Fabulous! Love that double embossing, and I'm in awe that you did it all on a one-layer card. You should see me -- I'm always picking away stray bits of embossing powder with an exacto when I emboss on black. It's so hard to get them all! :)